This one is all over the blogosphere. Jason Booth, previously of Harmonix and now part of a fresh start-up, Conduit Labs, has blogged about the limitations of the PS3 hardware. He attacks what he sees as the myths surrounding the system - that it's more graphically advanced than the 360, that Blu-ray provides advantages and that developers will draw more performance out of the architecture once they master it. He claims, instead, that intrinsic hardware issues mean that developers are always playing catch up to the Xbox capabilities:

Some interesting hands-on reports of Assassin's Creed are coming through after the game's showing at E3. This one from PSM3 magazine's Dan Dawkins, seems to sum up opinion quite nicely - the game is massively ambitious, has moments of genius, but is also frustrating and demanding:

Konami has released new details and screenshots of Pro Evo 2008, due on PS3, Xbox 360 and super-powered PCs this Autumn. The biggest boast, predictably enough, is the re-worked AI, or 'proprietary adaptive AI system' according to the press release. It's called Teamvision and here's a bit more info from the release:

I missed this on Monday, but Hollywood Reporter has revealed that action movie director John Woo and game designer Warren Spector are teaming up to work on a new movie/videogame project named Ninja Gold. The story revolves around a traditional Ninja warrior who must adapt to operate in the modern world of covert warfare.

SPOnG and other sources have lasciviously pored over a ten-page GTA IV preview featured in this month's Game Informer magazine. Some of the titbits include confirmation of a multiplayter mode as well as Xbox 360 exclusive episodic content available for download at a later date.

It's weird how radio has come back into vogue. A few years ago technological sooth-sayers were predicting its demise, due to our increasingly visual culture manifested in the rise of satellite and cable TV. But then came iPod to get us interested in audio again, plus DAB and internet radio, their proliferation of new channels appealing to the magpie consciousness of the modern media consumer.

Despite going on sale in Japan three weeks after the PS3, Nintendo's Wii outsold the PS3 in both companies' home territory by more than two to one, according to this story in the New York Times (login required), quoting Japanese estimates.

2K Games has released a new trailer of its promising FPS, Bioshock, and I've put it on the Gamesblog YouTube page! It was created for the Spike TV videogame awards and features a few new snippets of in-game action.

Just a quick one. In all the Wii vs PS3 fuss, some people have accidentally forgotten about Xbox 360. But it's still around and actually building itself a presence in Japan. As CVG reports, the country's game charts from December 4 to 10, shows Blue Dragon at number 4, while Zelda limps in at 17. Okay, this is probably down to the inavailability of Wii units, but let's not focus on that - 80,000 sales for a 360 game is pretty decent.

Watch out there may be spoilers ahead... Veronica Mars actress Kristen Bell has just given an interview to IGN TV in which she talks about her voice role in forthcoming next-gen adventure, Assassin's Creed. The game was thought to be a historical slice n' dicer, revolving around an assassin who gets caught up in a Holy Land conspiracy. But it turns out (as, in fact, the developer has always hinted) that this may only be part of the story.

The debate over which is the more powerful next-gen games console has been raging for over a year, but in the last few weeks we've finally been able to pore over some first-hand evidence. The Call of Duty 3 conversions to Xbox 360 and PS3 are more closely comparable, perhaps, than many fanboys on either side would have predicted. More interesting is the unspoken rivalry between Gears of War and Resistance: Fall of Man - two showboating FPS titles with similar themes and environments.

The organisers of the Science Museum's Game On exhibition have announced that they're taking delivery of Wii and PS3 consoles. The two new machines will be installed alongside Xbox 360 on Wednesday, thereby creating an interative next-gen showdown area. No word yet on what games they'll be running, but a Gears of Wars vs Resistance vs Red Steel face-off would be interesting. And if you get bored in the inevitable queue, you could always scamper off to try one of the 120 other machines at the event.

IGN reported yesterday that Sony may now only have 80,000 PS3 units available for the Japanese launch due to component shortages - that's 20,000 down on previous promises. This news comes from Japan's Nikkei Keizai Shimbun agency.

Several news sources have reported that Sony is delaying the release of its BDP-S1 Blu-ray player - for the third time. Originally due for launch almost six months ago, the benchmark player will now hit the shelves in December - after the US and Japan launch of PS3. It seems Sony may be stockpiling Blu-ray components for its next-gen games machine at the expense of other hardware.

The Gran Turismo post has prompted a mini-debate about the quality of graphics on offer from early PlayStation 3 titles. So for the purposes of comparison, here's a selection of other in-game* PS3 shots, fresh from TGS. Forget Holbein - wander through this gallery of much-hyped images then feel free to add a Brian Sewell-esque comment...